[Rarebooks] OOPS Re: [b] FS: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery in 1852

[David Klappholz]

Sorry; I didn't notice that Forrest's post was to this list as well 
as to another list that I belong to, and meant to respond only to that list.

Dave

At 04:14 PM 12/29/2006, David Klappholz wrote:

>At 03:43 PM 12/29/2006, Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA wrote:
> >...Laurel Hill was founded in 1836, the second "rural" cemetery in America.
>
>If my memory is correct: What is now "Greenwich Village" was outside
>of NYC -- not very far out, but then Laurel Hill isn't far away from
>Center City, and is, in fact, within Phila., though it may not have
>been in 1836. In any event, what is now Washington Square Park was
>used, in 1812, as a burial place for fallen soldiers. I wonder if
>this is the one considered to be "first." (It was later, of course,
>dug up, or maybe paved over, when the Park was estabished.
>
>Dave
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